Geoffrey Rush

One of Australia's most popular and distinguished actors, Geoffrey Rush came to the attention of the international community in 1996 with his performance as pianist David Helfgott in Shine (1996). Rush won an Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe, and Australian Film Institute Award for his work, and he subsequently began appearing in films that would further make him known to audiences all over the world. A Queensland native, Rush was born in Toowoomba on July 6, 1951. After taking an arts degree from the University of Queensland, he began his theater career at Brisbane's Queensland Theatre Company. In addition to honing his skills with the classics, Rush lived in Paris for two years, where he studied pantomime at the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime. After returning to Australia, the actor resumed his stage work, at one point co-starring in Waiting for Godot with former roommate Mel Gibson. He spent much of the early '80s as part of director Jim Sharman's Lighthouse troupe and he also began working in film; his debut came in the 1981 Hoodwink, which also featured a young Judy Davis. Rush continued to appear in Australian films and on the stage, directing a number of theatrical productions in addition to acting in them. His big international break came in the form of the aforementioned Shine; following the adulation surrounding his performance as the unbalanced piano prodigy, Rush began to garner substantial roles in a number of high-profile projects. First was Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda (1997), in which he played Oscar's great-grandson. The following year the actor drew raves for his work in Elizabeth, which featured him as the Queen's casually sinister confidant, and Shakespeare in Love, for which he again donned tights, this time to play a debt-ridden theater owner. His work in that film scored him his second Oscar nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The same year, he could also be seen as the dastardly Inspector Javert in Bille August's adaptation of Les Miserables.In 1999, Rush exchanged the past for the future with Mystery Men. Starring as the dastardly Casanova Frankenstein, he shared the screen with an unlikely assortment of actors, including Greg Kinnear, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, and Paul Reubens. The same year, he starred as an eccentric millionaire who invites a few guests (including Bridgette Wilson, Taye Diggs, and Peter Gallagher) over for some tea and terror in the remake of William Castle's 1958 classic The House on Haunted Hill.At this point audiences in the know were indeed well aware of Rush's versitility, and any actor able to move from the campy, big budget B-horror to the Oscar nominated art-house antics of Phil Kaufman's Quills had little need to prove himself to either critics or audiences. Though he may not have taken home the trophy at the 2001 Academy Awards, his performance as the Marquis de Sade in the Kaufman film drew praise from nearly every corner of the critical spectrum and Rush was now recognized as one of the premier talents of his generation. Whether appearing in such deadly serious independent drama as Frida or wide release cotton candy as The Banger Sisters, Rush was never anything less than fascinating to watch and his enthusiasm for his craft always managed to shine through into his performances. Though the film wasn't seen by the majority of stateside audiences, 2003's Swimming Upstream offered Rush in a meorable turn as the distant father of Australian swimmer Tony Figleton. After taking on one of Austrailia's most notorious outlaws in the 2003 drama Ned Kelley and offering vocal work for the popular Pixar family adventure Finding Nemo, Rush remained on this high seas - this time mostly above water - as the leader of an undead crew of pirates in the 2003 swashbuckler Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Though his menacing performance may have been slightly overshadowed by the flamboyant antics of co-star Johnny Depp, Rush neverthele

I suppose feeling a certain interest in a person necessarily engenders a conviction that she's beautiful.

Ron:

The warrior learned there's a heck of a lot more pleasure making things grow than there is in cutting them down.

Boron:

We only seek the truth.

Soren:

The truth? We told you the truth. The Pure Ones exist. They will enslave us all and rule our world without pity!! I know that the only proof I have are my words... but words were the only proof I had that you existed, and still I believed.

Ezylryb:

And you would argue with that?

Philip Henslowe:

See you in prison.

Hans:

I’m not sure what it all meant. Everything he went through. Everything we did.

Liesel:

We were just being people. That’s what people do.

Marquis de Sade:

It's a powerful aphrodisiac, isn't it? Having power over another man.

Hans:

"Better that we leave the paint behind, than ever forget the music."

Hans:

Better that we leave the paint behind, than ever forget the music.

Liesel:

It was not always mine.

Hans:

Did you steal it?

Max:

It was not always mine.

Liesel:

Did you steal it?

Lionel Logue:

Do you know any jokes?

King George VI:

...Timing isn't my strong suit.

Yang:

Sheriff?

Ron:

Woman.

Ephraim:

If I cut my nails off the grow up again.

Avner:

Did we accomplish anything at all? Every man we killed has been replaced by worse.

Ephraim:

Why cut my fingernails? They'll grow back.

Ephraim:

Some kitchen donkey thinks that there were two athletes murdered at Munich. But that doesn't make any sense.

George 'Bertie' VI:

I'm not here to discuss personal matters.

Lionel Logue:

Why're you here then?

Lionel Logue:

Why are you here then?

George 'Bertie' VI:

Because I bloody well stammer!

Lionel Logue:

Temper.

Captain Barbossa:

You know Jack, I thought I had you figured out. But it turns out you're a hard man to predict.

Jack Sparrow:

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

Jack Sparrow:

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.

For certain you have to be lost to find something that cannot be found, else everyone would know where it is.

Captain Barbossa:

The moon light shows us what we really are.

Captain Barbossa:

Masters Pintel and Ragetti, take this fishwife to the brig.

Pintel:

Right this way, Mrs. Fish.

Narrator:

Oscar had tasted the pudding. It did not taste like the fruit of Satan.

Sir Francis Walsingham:

Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for acts of ruthlessness which are necessary for safe guarding the state and their own person. You must take these things so much to heart that you do not fear to strike. Even the very nearest that you have if they be implicated.

I am William Turner! The son of William Turner! His blood runs in my veins!

Ragetti:

He's the spitting image of old Bootstrap!

Captain Barbossa:

Name your terms Mr. Turner.

Will Turner:

Elizabeth goes free!

Captain Barbossa:

Yes, we know that one. Anything else?

Lionel Logue:

Do you know The "F Word"?

Lionel Logue:

Do you know The 'F word'?

George 'Bertie' VI:

F-F-Fornication?

King George VI:

Listen to Me! Listen to Me!

Lionel Logue:

Why would i waste my time listening to you?

Lionel Logue:

Why would I waste my time listening to you?

King George VI:

because i have a voice!

King George VI:

because I have a voice!

Lionel Logue:

yes you do

Lionel Logue:

Yes you do.

Ephraim:

We have eleven Palestenian names, each who handed on planning Munich, you are going to kill' em one by one.

King George VI:

What are you doing? Get up you can't seat there. Get up.

King George VI:

[Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!

Lionel Logue:

Why not? It's a chair.

Captain Barbossa:

I feel... cold.

Captain Barbossa:

Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead.

Captain Barbossa:

You're supposed to be dead!

Jack Sparrow:

Am I not?

Jack Sparrow:

Am I not?

Ron:

[from trailer] Ninjas. Damn.

Ron:

Ninjas. Damn.

Lionel Logue:

Do you know the "F" word?

Lionel Logue:

Do you know the "f" word?

George 'Bertie' VI:

Fornicate?

George 'Bertie' VI:

Ffff... fornication?

Lionel Logue:

"We're not a family we're a firm."

Lionel Logue:

We're not a family, we're a firm.

Lionel Logue:

You still stammered on the 'W'.

King George VI:

Well I had to throw in a few so they knew it was me.

Lionel Logue:

I believe that sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.

King George VI:

My physicians say it relaxes the throat.

Lionel Logue:

They're idiots.

King George VI:

They've all been knighted.

Lionel Logue:

Makes it official then.

Tomar-Re:

The biggest threat the corps ever faced was Parallax.

Tomar-Re:

The greatest threat the Corps ever faced was Parallax, an entity that fed on the yellow energy of fear.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Mermaid waters, that be our path.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Are we not king's men?

Captain Barbossa:

Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures... but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!

Captain Barbossa:

Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures, but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!

Elizabeth Swann:

I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.

Captain Barbossa:

Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.

Captain Barbossa:

Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest, and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.

Captain Barbossa:

The Medallion! She's taken it! Get after her you feckless pack of ingrates!

Lionel Logue:

You don?t need to be afraid of things you were afraid of when you were five.

Lionel Logue:

You don't need to be afraid of things you were afraid of when you were five.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

What be wrong with an old man havin a hobby?

Captain Hector Barbossa:

The Revenge is mine.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

The revenge is mine.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Gentlemen, the fountain is the prize. Mermaid waters, that be our path.

Lionel Logue:

Pauses are fine... it shows solemnity

Lionel Logue:

Pauses are fine, it shows solemnity

King George VI:

Then I'm the solemnest King in the world!

King George VI:

My doctor said smoking relaxes the larynx

Lionel Logue:

Well, they're idiots

Lionel Logue:

Well, they're idiots.

George 'Bertie' VI:

But I'm not supposed to light it

George 'Bertie' VI:

But I'm not supposed to light it.

Lionel Logue:

That makes it official

Lionel Logue:

That makes it official.

Lionel Logue:

Do you know the "F" word?

Lionel Logue:

Do you know the 'F' word?

George 'Bertie' VI:

Fu...fu...fu.... Fornication!

Tomar-Re:

The ring turns thought into reality

Tomar-Re:

The ring turns thought into reality.

Nigel:

Fish are friends, not food.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

Dying is the day worth living for.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

"So tell me.....What's become of my ship?"

Captain Hector Barbossa:

So tell me... What's become of my ship?

Captain Hector Barbossa:

So tell me. What's become of my ship?

Captain Barbossa:

We are cursed men, Miss Turner.

Captain Hector Barbossa:

You can sleep when you're dead!

Captain Barbossa:

Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures... but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!